10th wedding anniversary

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Song of the day: Bruno Mars

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More Autims Awaneress videos

Aside from the videos I made, I found this made from a dad that really moved me! 

Hope you will enjoy!

 

Autism Awareness videos

If you read my blog regularly, you might already have seen these 2 videos I made about my son. 

 If you don't read my blog regularly....well, what's wrong with you?!?!?!?! Just kidding. 

If you don't know it yet, I'm the proud mom of a young man on the spectrum and I love him so much!

 These videos were made about him to raise awareness about Autism.  

  

 Autism is a developments disability that affects several areas such communication, learning and social interaction. 

When most people think about Autism, they picture in their head a person that doesn't talk, makes noises and flaps their hands. 

While this is true, there are also lighter forms of Autism that can go hidden for a long time. 

Looking at my son, it will take you a while to see that he's "different", but nonetheless he's affected by this disability. Plus he was diagnoses with ADD and Tourette Syndrome. 

I, myself, have a light form of Asperger. I fake through things most of the times so people won't see it too well, but it's there. 

 Learn about Autism. 

While we can be prepared for "typical" people, the world still needs to be prepared about us. 

Please.

Inspirational videos

My husband showed me this video the other day and I thought I passed it along as it really stroke a cord in me.

 

We did a little research on it and found out that it is the theme song of a video game called "Civilizations". I guess that's why they show the most important moment of our history. 

 Since I recently studies the story on the American Constitution, I was impressed to see Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln in it as well. All in all I think it's a good start up point to teach history to our children in a fun way. 

However, my research didn't end there as I wanted to know the language used in the song as I find it beautiful and the meaning of the words, because I believe that will add more meaning and feelings to the video. I found out the language used is Swahili and the words "Baba yetu" mean "Our Father", so the lyric of the song is an actual prayer that in my opinion add spiritualism and power to the video. What do you think? 

 Hubby and I had some kind of philosophical discussion about this video, he sees it as a flash back of what humanity did in the past, some very good things, and some very bad one in the name of our ideals, but in the end the intentions behind our action were always good. he also observed that all started from few cavemen and we accomplished so far from that time that we reached for the stars....(the astronauts part). 

 I agree with him for the most part, but I also regretfully noticed that in the past we were way more driven that today. We weren't afraid to speak up for ourselves and even get our hands dirty for the things we wanted and believed in. Today, I think humanity is more concerned with commodities and political correctness than they own ideals for most parts. 

But that's only my opinion.I really would like to know what this video means to you! 

If this isn't inspirational, I don't know what is!! Not impressed yet? Then take a look at this young lady reproducing the song with 2 hands and a guitar!

Dance around the world!

I find this video very neat and I want to share it with all of you! 

 Dance unifying people from around the world, no matter of sex, age, religion and background......if this isn't love, than I don't know what is!

 

Sweet father daughter moment

May I present you my hubby and my daughter caught in the act of sweetly singing to each other the dong "Darling I do" before bed time:

Enjoy!

 

Speaking of Autism......

Since I was prepping for the 5k, I was inspired to make this videos about my kids and of course Autism. 

I know that it's not Autism awareness month yet, but I thought I will go ahead and make them up so I'd have them ready for April. 

Nonetheless, I hope you all will enjoy them 

Halloween collection 2011

A little video to illustrate the new items available at Crocheted Little Things for this coming Halloween.

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Something in my mind.....

What's in yours this morning??

A song I love and a funny story.

Have you ever turned on the radio in your car and just found the perfect rhythmic song to bright the day and make it easier to wait that long red light?

I listen to radio frequently and one afternoon picking up the kids from school, I came across a song from Pink, that I really liked. And bonus points, the radio put it on a couple of times during the couple of hours I spent in the car.

Now, since English is only my second language, I must confess that sometimes for me is really difficult to catch ALL the words of a song, but I'm able to catch some of it and the superficial meaning of it. Then I go home, research the song on the internet, listen it to it again (and again and again and again.....lol) via you tube and find the lyric on google so I can really appreciated the message that the author is sending out.

This was the case this time. All I can catch from the radio was "You're perfect" and "Pretty pretty please". I put the volume up high the second time the song was on, so my daughter in the back can listen to it, since she always says "Pretty pretty please".

I arrive home and start my search. With luck I found the lyric that left me.....well, I let you see for yourself.

Made a wrong turn
Once or twice
Dug my way out
Blood and fire
Bad decisions
That's alright
Welcome to my silly life
Mistreated, misplaced, misunderstood
Miss "no way it's all good"
It didn't slow me down
Mistaken
Always second guessing
Underestimated
Look, I'm still around...

Pretty, pretty please
Don't you ever, ever feel
Like your less than
f**ckin' perfect
Pretty, pretty please
If you ever, ever feel
Like your nothing
You're f**ckin' perfect to me

You're so mean
When you talk
About yourself
You are wrong
Change the voices
In your head
Make them like you
Instead
So complicated
Look how big you'll make it
Filled with so much hatred
Such a tired game
It's enough
I've done all i can think of
Chased down all my demons
see you do the same

Pretty, pretty please
Don't you ever, ever feel
Like your less than
f**ckin' perfect
Pretty, pretty please
If you ever, ever feel
Like your nothing
You're f**ckin' perfect to me

The world stares while i swallow the fear
The only thing i should be drinking is an ice cold beer
So cool in lying and we try, try, try
But we try too hard, it's a waste of my time
Done looking for the critics, cuz they're everywhere
They don't like my jeans, they don't get my hair
Exchange ourselves and we do it all the time
Why do we do that?
Why do I do that?
Why do I do that?

Ooh, pretty pretty pretty,
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel
Like you're less then, f**ckin' perfect
Pretty pretty please if you ever ever feel
Like you're nothing you're f**ckin' perfect, to me
You're perfect
You're perfect
Pretty, pretty please if you ever ever feel like you're nothing you're f**cking perfect to me


WHAT??? How didn't I picked the F bomb in this song???? And let my 5 yo singing it all day long???? Geeesh, mu hearing and my English must really suck bad if I didn't pick up on that!!!!!

Still, I do love the message of the song and I wish more teens and pre teens will listen to it.

Then one day I stumbled across a video of the same song posted on facebook by one of my friends....the same song...without the F word!!! So I didn't dream it about it!

Turns out my radio station is family friendly, so they transmitted the version of the song that didn't contain any curse words.

Here I'm sharing it with you (but please if they are children around abstain to watch this, even tho the song is clean, the video is very strong).

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Newsletter #10 and new video

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Happy Father's day and Happy Birthday to me!!

Hi there to all, this is Lu. Here it is newsletter #10.

I have lots of news to share with you!!!

I'm starting with greeting you with a little giveaway sponsored by Pieces of me Pendants!

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What happened?







New products are available, like my open toes slippers (just perfect to relax your feet in this hot weather) or my new slice of pie pincushion (soon to be available as Christmas ornament as well). Plus, to celebrate Father's day with all of you I'm having a little sale!!!

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• End Date: 06/20

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What's coming up?

Tomorrow is my birthday!!!! I'm turning 28 years old and what better way to celebrate with all of you with a super sale that you can't say no????? For tomorrow only, June 19th, all the items in my ArtFire studio are 50% off!!!! Yes, 50% OFF!!! Can it get any better??? But it does!! The 2 offers can be combined, so hurry up! Hope to see you there!

Friday Giveaways Love

My latest you tube video about gluten-free products.

I had a very good response for this, so I think I'm going to do some more about the subject :)

Now just link your giveaway and enter mine :D

Crocheted Little Things on youtube!

Trying this one out right now, making little videos that I hope will help you get to know me better.

I'm writing, what I'm saying below.

Hi, this is Lu. I'm going to start a series of videos on youtube to help me promote my business because times are tough right now, money is tight and I really need a boost to help arrive at the end of the month.

I hope you can understand my accent: I came from Italy and English is my second language and I'm really not used to talk in English in public. So, If you have any difficulties understanding me, I will make a close captioning on my blog and post the link in the details of this video for you to click on and read what I'm saying if your cannot understand it.
I want to talk a little bit about my business. I opened a little shop called "Crocheted Little Things" and in the very beginnings I really didn't know what I wanted to do with it, just wanted to crochet and sell something, but then I started crocheting cupcake and I had lots of fun making them. Everyone likes them and I'm trying to expand my line, including more food-related stuff and I hope you're going to like it too, so I'm going to show you something that I made.
Those are good examples of what I make:

This is a red velvet cake, with a turquoise blue top frosting and this

is one of the cupcakes that I made for Easter. I think the light is really bad and I don't think you can really see the colors, but the yarn is really rainbow looking with sparkles of white, pink, green, blue and yellow and I think was really cute for Easter.
I make those with a little weight on the bottom, so they can stand on a table and they can be used as pincushions from seamstresses, so they can have all their pins in place.

Another example, and this is really new and I'm really proud of it, is my birthday cake that I made with a candle on it

I think it's really cute for when you want to give a little gift for a birthday but maybe you don't have a real cake handy or time to bake one or don't wanna make a really big cake for a "2 people" celebration, you can still blow on the candle and make a wish: maybe it will come true! I thought they are really cute and I made them in several colors and this is the only one I have in stock right now, but I'm going to work on it and make more of them in more colors. So far I made a lots of pink one, I think I'm going to make some blue and green for boys.

And another one that I have in stock right now, it's really small and I called them the mini cupcakes.

They have a little stretch cord on the top, and I sold a lot of those like Christmas ornaments. This is the only one that I have in stock right now because Christmas is not here yet, but I'm definitely going to stock on these because during Christmas time they fly off my shelves.

I hope you enjoyed looking at my cupcakes. I'm going to make more videos eventually, showing you more products and I think I'm going to show you some other handmade goodies that I've got from my friends, because there are really really a lots of talents out there (sorry for the beep of my dryer LOL) and I think people don't even know. So, I hope with this videos to give a chance to someone to get noticed and known.

I hope you enjoyed and you can understand my accent.
That's all for now, I see ya later, bye!!!

I didn't have a speech prepared and I was kinda of stiff, again I apologize for my accent and grammar. Hopefully with time I'll be able to take better videos and I've few idea for tutorials that you all can enjoy!

Big Thanks!

Big Thanks are in order today to many people for many reason.
So, let's start and give those thanks you's!

♥ I want to star to thank my friend Allison, one of the admin on Everyday Moms, that sent me a little surprise in the mail the past week! There you go!

The cupcake towel comes from Made At Nanas and the cupcake soap comes from Norma's bath and body.

♥ Than I want to thank Allison's daughter Kiya: ever wonder what my customers think about my cupcakes? Wonder no more: watch this video!

♥ I have to thank Deb for featuring my shop on Indie Juction: I felt very honored!

♥ Least, but not last, I want to thank Tammy that highlighted my plarn bag in this blog post. I really enjoy reading all her findings.

Ok, now it's time for me to take a shower with the lovelies that were in my mail!